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Transition programs help low-income, first-generation students adjust to college
(Rick Nease/ Detroit Free Press) For some first-generation or low-income students, attending an elite university can often be a daunting and anxiety-filled experience. That’s no surprise, as studies...
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This NYC law firm refuses to hire Ivy League grads
While studies suggest many of the country’s top law firms heavily recruit from Ivy League universities, New York-based firm Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. is one place where graduates of the nation’s most...
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Yale University has the best college library in America
Libraries play a huge role in shaping one’s intellect in college. Their style and setting form the backbone of an academic environment, which invariably affects students’ decision in picking colleges....
View ArticleViewpoint: Why I used to carry my college rejection letters in my backpack
I used to carry my college decision letters in my backpack. Well, not all of them. I carried the rejections from Princeton, Stanford and Northwestern, the wait list notifications from the University of...
View ArticleFilmmakers Jaye and Adam Fenderson on their trailblazing college subjects
In 2011, Jaye and Adam Fenderson released their documentary First Generation at a handful of film festivals. For many low-budget indie films, the story often stops there. But this one is only getting...
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It's now 74 times more difficult to get into NASA than Harvard
Photo: Bill Brassard, NASA If you thought Ivy League schools had low admission percentages, you haven’t seen anything yet. It turns out NASA’s astronaut class has an astronomically lower acceptance...
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9 universities file brief against Columbia grad student unionization efforts
Columbia University Library in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) Columbia University administrators are getting support from their Ivy League brethren over a pending unionization case with the...
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Harvard faculty members vote in favor of pass-fail curricula change
Harvard University (Photo: Chitose Suzuki, AP) Faculty members of Harvard University’s Arts and Sciences school voted Tuesday to allow students to take as many as half of their general-education...
View ArticleStudent writes college essay about Costco, accepted into five Ivies
If a superstore has impacted your life, you might want to write about it. It seems 18-year-old high school senior Brittany Stinson submitted an essay about her love for Costco and got some pretty good...
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24 free Ivy League courses you can sign up for today
Let’s be real — not everyone can afford to go to an Ivy League school, nor can most people get in to begin with (certainly not I). But lo and behold, the beautiful invention of online education has...
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Columbia and Barnard are the latest schools to drop SAT and ACT requirements
Tired of obsessing over your SAT scores? Don’t worry. Columbia and Barnard are too — among other schools. Barnard College, a women’s liberal arts school in New York City, dropped its SAT Subject Test...
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Yale dishwasher who smashed racist window gets a 'second chance' to work there
A former worker at Yale University, arrested after breaking a stained-glass window that depicted slaves carrying bales of cotton, has been granted a second chance to work at the Ivy League institution....
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For young women in finance, breaking the glass ceiling starts on the...
(Photo: Ingram Publishing/Thinkstock) To successfully shatter the glass ceiling, women may have to start by breaking the floor — the trading floor, that is. Although women in the U.S. Financial...
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Ivy League clinches top 3 spots in ranking of best U.S. colleges
Corrections & clarifications: This story was updated to remove an accompanying video about college rankings. Yale remains the top university in the United States, according to new data released...
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Princeton's still No. 1, but other Ivies slipped in the 2017 U.S. News best...
The campus of Princeton University in Princeton, N.J. (Princeton University) Think Ivy Leagues are the best place for an education? Well, some of them still are — though others are slipping in U.S....
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Yale apologizes for racist imagery on football program cover
Yale University (iStock) NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Yale University officials are apologizing for using racist images of Native Americans on the cover of the program for last weekend’s football game...
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'Tolerant' educators exile Trump voters from campus: Glenn Reynolds
One of the more amusing bits of fallout from last week’s election has been the safe-space response of many colleges and universities to the election of the “wrong” candidate. But on closer...
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Applications for the class of 2021 are seriously exploding
It’s application season on turbo. Essays, recommendation letters and informational forms for admittance to the university class of 2021 are at higher levels at schools around the country this year —...
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Do you know where the presidents of the United States went to college?
Mount Rushmore is one of the most famous travel destinations in South Dakota. (Photo: Getty Images) Sixteen attended Ivy League schools. One had a Ph.D. Twelve had no formal degrees. Eight didn’t go to...
View ArticleCampus news of the week: Sexual misconduct, food stamps and support for...
Welcome to the weekly Campus news of the week roundup here at USA TODAY College. There are around five thousand colleges and universities in the U.S. Here’s a snapshot of the most compelling stories...
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It's harder than it's ever been to get into the Ivy League
Yale University. (Photo: istock/Getty Images) It’s admissions season — and this one is one like no other. College application numbers for a spot in the Class of 2021 defied expectations, setting...
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These students' acceptance letters are #goals
Lakota East seniors and quadruplet brothers from left, Zachary, Aaron, Nigel, and Nick Wade pose together at Lakota East High School, in Liberty Township, Ohio, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. All the...
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Here's what it really takes to get into the Ivy League these days
Many prospective Harvard students touch the left shoe of the John Harvard statue for luck. But you need way more than luck to get in. (iStock/Getty Images) The eight Ivy League schools — Brown,...
View ArticleAt least 10 who got into Harvard lose admission over offensive memes
At least 10 students who were accepted to Harvard University’s incoming Class of 2021 had their acceptances rescinded for sharing memes that were either sexually explicit or racially insensitive,...
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Most college students are female, but college presidents? Not so much.
In this May 30, 2013 file photo Harvard University President Drew Faust clasps hands with a graduate as she walks in the procession at commencement ceremonies in Cambridge, Mass. President Faust, who...
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